How magazines can help promote literacy
The National Year of Reading is a great opportunity, says FIPP Executive Director Alastair Lewis, to introduce younger generations to the safe, trusted and enriching content of magazines.
InPublishing Magazine: May/June 2026
InPublishing magazine deep dives into publishing strategy through its in-depth articles and special features.
Our mission is to help senior executives at newspaper and magazine publishers publish better content, engage fully with their audiences and make more money.
Whatever your publishing channel – print or digital – each issue will arm you with inspiration, insight and actionable takeaways for you to apply to your own businesses.
The May/June issue includes the following in-depth articles:
- Seize the moment: The global collapse in trust is publishers’ golden opportunity.
- On the doorstop: One person powerful people with something to hide don’t want to see on their doorstep is journalist John Sweeney.
- Industry Voice: Alastair Lewis: FIPP’s executive director tells us why the National Year of Reading is a great opportunity for magazine publishers.
- Catching them young: Immediate Media is working hard to drive sustainability awareness amongst the readers of its children’s magazines.
- Case study: data transformation: We talk to Infopro’s Tom Lake and 67 Bricks’ Will Bailey about how they are successfully unlocking the full value of their data. (sponsored content)
- Late converts: Until recently, Reach titles eschewed the subs route. David Higgerson tells Steve Dyson about their new part paywall.
- From URL to IRL: Immediate Media has realised that people crave real life experiences and has created a new agency to deliver those.
- AI for event organisers: Robin Booth looks at the work emap has been doing to create AI agents to enhance its events offering.
- AI is not magic…: … but many journalists treat it as if it is. Journalists need to demystify the tech.
- Less is more: Publishers looking to build communities should look for deep and consistent engagement with fewer members than fleeting with many.
- Case study: magazine printing: We talk to FT’s Janet White and Roularta Printing’s Steven Renders about their successful partnership. (sponsored content)
- Digital Horizons: Carl Myers: For Faversham House’s CTO, GenAI is the biggest tech shift since the invention of the printing press and… he’s excited about it.
- Journalism as resistance: Transcript of the 2026 Reuters Memorial Lecture, given by Salvadoran journalist Carlos Dada.
- Dealing with a no-show: Q: How did Esquire Singapore manage to produce an interview when their cover star failed to turn up? A: Claude & Copilot.
- Appointments: Our regular pictorial look at some of the key appointments in the publishing sector since our last issue.
- Navigating the chaos: The old world order is rupturing; Jim Bilton looks for parallels in the media industry.
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Articles in this issue include:
How to unlock the full value of your data
Are you making money from your data? If you’re a B2B information provider, then the answer is probably ‘yes’, but are you realising the full value of your data assets? If your data is unstructured, then probably not...
From prompts to event agents
Right now, says Robin Booth, most of us use AI like a very clever search engine or copy assistant. That’s fine but the real power comes when we start building systems.
Anatomy of a successful print partnership
Are you happy with your printer? The Financial Times’ Janet White is happy with Roularta Printing, the Belgium based printer who prints the FT’s portfolio of magazines, including for its UK distribution.
Reasons to be cheerful in 2026
Carl Myers, chief technology officer at Faversham House, looks at the tech opportunities and challenges facing his company and the wider B2B publishing sector.
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